Trying to escape the past

[silberstreif]

Disclaimer: Transformers belongs to Hasbro, and not me.

Beta: none
Rating: G
Character: Soundwave
Note: I think this was a tf_speedwriting response which I didn't upload then...
Words: 261

Summary: He was trying to escape his past, trying to forget. But one can't forget themselves.

Trying to escape the past

He had reformatted himself entirely. Changed his designation. Manipulated all and every file that existed of him. Learned another accent and another profession. Created himself a new life.

All of it just so, that he would be able to escape.

It was only fitting irony then, that he woke every recharge cycle shaking with fear, because his memory banks had remained the same. He still remembered.

Remembered that once he had been the overseer of the Quintesson slaves, the most trusted, most powerful of all Cybertronians – but in the end also just a slave. Yet, as more and more mechs chafed against their shackles and dreamed of freedom, they only trusted him enough to gift him with a special talent – telepathy.

The ensuing massacres were all on his orders. Mech after mech was shot into the spark or vanished in the laboratories. Mech after mech condemned he to death, without ever stopping to ask why. The orders of his masters were explanation enough.

He had been loyal. As he would always be, his spark wasn't made to be anything other than a servant. He would serve, until he died.

His masters died before him. So did his chosen replacement. And the one after.

Yet, he lived, walking through the ages, tasting their thoughts and wishes, watching as they became more and more. Immortality. Did his former masters gift him with his continued survival?

He didn't know.

He still missed his true masters. But he told himself he wouldn't serve them again.

Comments

[pjlover666.livejournal.com]

Oh Soundwave... What a life indeed :( And it hurts how fitting it is....
Wonderfully written! ^^

[silberstreif.livejournal.com]

Thanks! This Soundwave certainly had a life with up and downs... but at least it was long? :)

[exactly-what.livejournal.com]

Wow. :( I sure do hope, for the sake of all Cybertron, that the Quintessons never return. And poor Soundwave...

[silberstreif.livejournal.com]

One can only hope they never come back. They're surely a creepy alien race. :) Yeah, poor Soundwave, I hope he overcomes his nightmares someday...

[neverminetohold.livejournal.com]

Very nice and powerful drabble! You can feel how distraught, haunted SW is, but I think his decision to not alter his own memory banks in any way, very much shows what kind of 'bot he is.

...but I really hope the Quintessons never do come back. I hated them very much in the TF movie, though my background knowledge how they enslaved the TFs is a bit wobbly.